Fundamental Rights in India

So as to provide a democratic environment for the people of India to live in, Indian Government has provided six basic rights to every citizen of India. Here, we are describing each fundamental right in detail to help you in understanding the constitution.

The Fundamental Rights embodied in the Indian constitution acts as a guarantee that all Indian citizens can and will lead their lifes in peace as long as they live in Indian democracy. These civil liberties take precedence over any other law of the land. They include individual rights common to most liberal democracies, such as equality before the law, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly, freedom of religion, and the right to constitutional remedies for the protection of civil rights such as habeas corpus.

In addition, the Fundamental Rights for Indians are aimed at overturning the inequities of past social practices. They have also been used to in sucessfully abolishing the "untouchability"; prohibit discrimination on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth; and forbid trafficking in human beings and also the forced labor. They go beyond conventional civil liberties in protecting cultural and educational rights of minorities by ensuring that minorities may preserve their distinctive languages and establish and administer their own education institutions.

Originally, the right to property was also included in the Fundamental Rights; however, the Forty-fourth Amendment, passed in 1978, revised the status of property rights by stating that "No person shall be deprived of his property save by authority of law." Freedom of speech and expression, generally interpreted to include freedom of the press, can be limited "in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence"

Here we have defined the six fundamental rights as per the constitution of India:-

1. Right to Equality

2. Right to Particular Freedom

3. Cultural and Educational Rights

4. Right to Freedom of Religion

5. Right Against Exploitation and

6. Right to Constitutional Remedies

Right to Equality

Article 14 :- Equality before law and equal protection of law

Article 15 :- Prohibition of discrimination on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

Article 16 :- Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment

Article 17 :- End of untouchability

Article 18 :- Abolition of titles, Military and academic distinctions are, however, exempted

Right to Freedom

Article 19 :- It guarantees the citizens of India the following six fundamentals freedoms:-